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[Bug 653] Minor typo in panic log entry when creating spool file
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653

Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> 2008-01-03 09:32:09 ---
On onsdagen den 2 januari 2008, John Horne wrote:
> Running exim 4.63 under CentOS 5.0 I got the following panic log entry:
>
> 2008-01-02 15:03:55 1JA58N-0004Wf-IF Failed to create spool file
> /var/spool/exim/input//1JA58N-0004Wf-IF-D: Permission denied
>
> Note the '//' in the spool file pathname. I assume this should be just one
> '/'.

The code deliberately exploits the fact that two adjacent slashes are treated
as one to skip a level when split_spool_directory is false (were it true, you
would see /var/spool/exim/input/N/1JA58N-0004Wf-IF-D instead). I don't think
it's worth messing with the code for this minor cosmetic issue.


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